Milan Aksentijevic

Milan Aksentijevic (1 September 1935-) was a Major-General of the Yugoslav People's Army.

Biography
Milan Aksentijevic was born in Kragujevac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1935. His parents were killed in a 1941 massacre at Kragujevac during World War II, and his family moved to Slovenia after the war. In 1953, he entered the Yugoslav People's Army, rising to the rank of General after 40 years in Slovenia. He was captured during the Croatian War of Independence, but he was later exchanged for a Croatian-Canadian prisoner. In 1992, he negotiated the exchange of the captured Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic for the safe withdrawal of the Yugoslav troops in Sarajevo, and he retired that same year.